Google have introduced social into their signals as part of the ranking algo. but that is on a trust rank basis and not on a mickey mouse style spammy bookmarking basis.

it ALL depends on the value of the attached social status of the link. The other day, I got a link from an industry leader in SEO, that person is followed by many other industry leaders, so that link had a high worth in the ranking. At the same time i got loads of lesser links from the same site, but from people who have no social standing 9as such online in this particular sense), those links probably didn't mean much as a stand alone, BUT, because the industry leaders had linked to the same page at roughly the same point in time, those lesser links will count, and my page will have got a boost in both value of content and the new timeline (event) element of the algorithm,

I can't put my finger on it but it was a couple of SEO articles one of which suggested bookmarks had remained as valuable as ever since Panda, whilst article marketing had plummeted in link value.

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I read that bookmarking is still a worthwile activity in relation to SEO or at least as a part of SEO strategy.

It is. Just got a few pages that went live on a new site Im working on. Bookmarked it using old trusted accounts in two places - Digg and StumbleUpon. Minimal traffic but the pages got to second page for their respective keywords within a few hours. I don't do much self-serving bookmarking these days but it's still an important tool if you want your pages indexed fast._________________WebSearch SEOSEO Services UK

Depends entirely on how it's used and what you want to achieve. I gain tremendous value from it, because I have spent time getting networks of people together, so I can learn from what they are interested in, and I can let them know what I find useful. Then with something like Diigo there are various different discussion groups to get involved with. Very useful.